EF0 tornado, Hayesville to Stoutsville, Ohio, July 17, 2022

1. EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mph

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. EF2111 to 135 mph

   Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

4. EF3136 to 165 mph

   Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. EF5over 200 mph

   Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

7. Unrated

   The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Rating

EF0

Date

July 17, 2022

Touchdown

4:05 PM EDT (20:05 UTC)

Lifted

4:22 PM EDT (20:22 UTC)

On the ground

17 minutes

Path length

6.0 miles (9.6 km)

Path width

100 yards (91 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

3

Property damage

$260,000

Counties

Pickaway and Fairfield counties

Touchdown point

39.545, -82.933

Lift-off point

39.568, -82.826

Record number

2207171405-01

8 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS ILN, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF0. The highest wind the damage implies is 85 mph.

• Barn door not installed. Primary support beams not placed into concrete. Lower-bound winds estimated.

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

Showers with embedded thunderstorms developed ahead of a low pressure system moving through the Great Lakes region.

The first damage occurred on three separate properties on the west side of Kingston Pike where an RV was flipped on its side and a neighboring house had roof damage. |One injury was reported within the RV. Another property received minor structural damage. The tornado continued east-northeast and caused tree and minor structural damage to properties along Gay-Dreisbach Road and Ludwig-Dresback Road. The maximum width of the tornado was likely on Ludwig-Dresback Road due to the tree damage observed. Beyond this damage, accessibility became more challenging and the distance between damage points increased. The tornado may have lifted several times throughout the remainder of the track as the tornado became less organized.||It is unknown if any damage occurred between Morris Salem Road and State Route 56 East. On the north side of State Route 56 East, a single property received minor tree and structure damage with the worst damage associated with a new outbuilding that collapsed. Two more injuries were reported within this structure. After crossing more agricultural fields, damage was observed at the Logan Elm School property on Tarlton Road. Several buildings received minor damage along with damage to various portions of the sports complex. Security camera footage helped confirm that a circulation was still evident at this location.||The tornado moved northeast across Tarlton Road and weakened as it continued into Fairfield County, ending at 1522EST, about 2.2 miles south of Stoutsville.

The tornado initially touched down in Pickaway County at 1505EST, about 1.1 miles north of Haysville. It moved east northeast and crossed into Fairfield County, north of Tarlton Road. Sporadic and minor damage occurred to trees north of Tarlton Road before lifted|near Dozer Road and Valentine Road Southwest. Additional tree damage to the northeast along 16th Road Southwest was considered straight-line winds.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a General Thunderstorms Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 19:50 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 82 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 20:05 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2022 tornado in OhioEvery tornado in Ohio since 1950Warnings in force in Ohio nowThe forecast where you are

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.